This month’s Web Roundup is dedicated to the role that legislation and the courts have in promoting or restricting access to medical care. In particular, I will focus briefly on the passage of anti-abortion legislation in the US and a few recent court cases that are testing the limits pharmaceutical patents. While not overtly theoretical in nature, I have found …
Tag Archives: Law
Robert Castel – 1933 – 2013
A French-language version of this piece, written by Nicolas Henckes, first appeared on h-madness. It has been translated into English by Anne Lovell and is also being posted simultaneously on h-madness.
French sociologist and historian Robert Castel passed away on March 12, 2013, at the age of 79. An important figure in French intellectual life over the past …
Release of Report on “HIV and the Law”
Today the Global Commission on HIV and the Law released its report “HIV and the Law: Risks, Rights & Health”, and we think it’s a pretty significant publication that deserves a critical and appreciative response.
In their words, “The final report of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law presents a coherent and compelling evidence base on human rights …
William Garriott on narcopolitics
My colleague William Garriott of James Madison University’s Department of Justice Studies was recently interviewed by the website Left Eye on Books about his recently published monograph Policing Methamphetamine: Narcopolitics in Rural America (NYU Press: 2011). In the interview Garriott discusses the concept of narcopolitics, the particular role ethnography has to play in understanding an emergent phenomenon like methamphetamine, …
The brain, the person, and the social: a workshop report
This post was contributed by Svenja Matusall & Johannes Bruder.
Workshop Report “The brain, the person, and the social. Probing neuroscientific ideas and practices from STS & history of science perspectives”, Zurich, 23.-25.06.2011
Looking in any daily newspaper of the (Western) world, we will see shiny images of active brains, showing “red spots of greed”, the differences between Democrat and …